Athletic Movement Quotes

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

I always wanted to play in Europe for a long time. They move the ball, and they move bodies, and that's what I like doing.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

My dance move has seemingly turned into push-ups. Sometimes, especially if I've indulged a little bit in an evening, it's not out of the ordinary to find me, for some reason, doing push-ups. That seems to be my go-to dance move.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around.

A big part of my game is movement. The players that I play with understand that and took the time to see where I like to run, and it's worked out.

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

When we're playing, I really shape my body to receive the ball - even before it gets to me.

The star-jump technique - that is a big part of being a handball goalkeeper, and I brought that move into football. It is a very effective way of saving a chance.

Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Yordi circumnavigated Ledley King there.